Pruning device.



Nil-825,885- PATENTED JULY 17,1906.

J. ALLEN. PRUNING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1905.

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JEFFERSON ALLEN, OF KENNEBUNK PORT, MAINE.

PRUNING Application filed September 2,

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kennebunk Port, in the county of York and State of Maine,have invented an Improvement in Pruning Devices or Branch-Cutters, ofwhich I the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification,like characters on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

Great difficulty is experienced in removing from trees the outer ends ortips of branches on which caterpillars and moths and the like have builttheir nests. I have devised a very simple device for this purpose, thatI will now describe.

Figure 1 shows the device as being put into position 011 a branch to becut off. Fig. 2 shows the device turned into its operative position.Fig. 3 shows the device on a larger scale, looking at the same inanother direction, the dotted line showing a branch that is engaged bythe arm of the device.

The device comprises a metallic head A, the lower end of which isadapted to be fixed to a suitable pole B either by screwing the poleinto a hole in the head or in any other suitable manner. The pole may bejointed after the manner of fishing-rods, and thus be made of anydesired length, according to the height of the branch to be cut off. Thehead will have extended therefrom an arm a, preferably occupying adiagonal position with relation to the length of the head, so as toenable the branch to be cut off to be held, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3,at the junction of the head and arm. Above this arm and between the sameand the top of said head I connect with said head a knife or blade I),the under or cutting edge 2 of which is inclined downwardly from saidhead toward the end of the knife or blade.

The butt-end of the knife or blade will be secured firmly to the head inany suitable manner, and after the head, mounted on the pole, has beenraised until the arm a contacts with the branch to be cutoff and saidbranch is thus located against the side of the head the head will berotated slightly in a direction to enable the edge of the knife or bladeto be put on top of the branch, and with the knife or blade contactingwith the top of the branch sustained between the arm and head the poleand head will be drawn down, and the knife or blade will cut off thebranch with a clean cut.

Specification of Letters Patent.

DEVICE.

l-atenteci July 17, 1906. 1905. SerlalNo.2'76.863.

It will be noted that the point where the knife is joined to the head isin a different plane,,viewed with relation to the longitudinal axis ofthe head, than the arm.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. In a pruning implement, a head having a branch-locating arm, and ablade adapted to sever the branch while located by the arm.

2. Apruning implement comprising a head having an upwardly-directed armfor engaging and locating abranch to be cut, and a laterally-extendingblade for severing the branch while located by the arm.

3. A pruning implement comprising a head having an upwardly-directed armfor engaging and locating a branch to be cut, and a blade extendingoutwardly from the head and provided with a cutting edge on its lowerside.

4. A pruning implement comprising a head having an upwardly-directed armfor engaging and locating a branch to be cut, and a blade extendingoutwardly from the head and provided with a cutting edge on its lowerside, said blade and arm occupying different radial planes.

5. A pruning implement comprising a head having an upwardly-directedbranch-locating arm and a blade extending laterally from the head at apoint between the upper and lower ends of said arms. 7

6. A pruning implement comprising a head having an upwardly-directedbranch-locating arm and a blade extending laterally from the head at apointbetween the upper and lower ends of said arms, said blade and armlying in different radial planes.

I 7. In a pruning implement, a head having an upwardly-directedbranch-locating arm, and a blade extending laterally from the head andhaving a lower cutting edge, said blade being situated between the upperand lower ends of the arm, the blade and arm being situated in radialplanes substantiallyninety degrees apart.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEFFERSON ALLEY.

Witnesses:

ANTON GREEN, GEO. Goonwrx.

